Speaking of Wu Huawen, "a generation of meritorious thieves", I think this seems to be the highest evaluation of him. Active! Thief too!
He was a concubine of the Northwest Army, a brave general of the Kuomintang, and a traitor of the Wang puppet regime, who rebelled four times and changed hands five times, and finally chose the general trend of history and threw himself into the embrace of the CCP.
He has four wives, of whom the eldest wife is a military command agent, and the third aunt is an underground spy of the CCP. After liberation, he took his three wives and many children to live in the "paradise on earth" by the West Lake of Hangzhou.
He died in Shanghai in 1962. Even the Cultural Revolution failed to bring him to order it.
The greatest achievement of this general from Bozhou, Anhui Province, was in the last choice of his life, learning from Fu Zuoyi to revolt and dedicate the city of Jinan, and he was the first "Xiongshi" general to enter the city of Nanjing and occupy the presidential palace in the "Battle of crossing the river".
The "Infernal Passage" in the Inner House
The Battle of Jinan in 1948 lasted only 8 days, and since then it has opened the prelude to the three major battles.
At such a rapid pace, in addition to the bravery of the People's Liberation Army, Wu Huawen, commander of the Kuomintang Second Appeasement Zone, commander of the reorganized 96th Army and commander of the reorganized 84th Division, led by more than 20,000 people to revolt on the battlefield.
This move shook the morale of the enemy troops defending the city, reduced the casualties of the troops and the destruction of the city of Jinan by artillery fire, shortened the time of the entire campaign, and played an important role in the liberation of Jinan.
"Frozen three feet, not a day's cold". It is no accident that Wu Huawen was able to side with the people at a critical moment in history, and the underground party Lin Shiying (Wu Huawen's third wife), who is still alive today, has a close relationship.
Wu Huawen had 4 wives in his lifetime, originally with Ma Yuzhen, who died early. While following Feng Yuxiang, he married a second wife, Zhao Huazhen, a nurse at Peking Union Medical College Hospital, and later became Dai Kasa's daughter.
Wu Huawen's third wife was Lin Shiying. A native of Ye County, Shandong Province, he is a scholarly mandi and has received a good education. When Wu Huawen was the commander of Han Fuyu's pistol brigade, Lin Shiying and Wu Huawen married.
Wu Huawen's fourth wife, Ning Yiwen, was married by Wu Huawen in the 1940s.
What is amazing is the identity of two of the wives. The second wife, Zhao Huazhen, was a Kuomintang military command agent, and the third wife, Lin Shiying, was an underground communist party member.
Lin Shiying knew that Zhao Huazhen was a secret agent of the military command, but Zhao Huazhen did not know that Lin Shiying was an underground intelligence officer of the CCP.
Wu Huawen knew the identities of the two wives, but neither wife knew wu Huawen knew their details.
It was not until before the Battle of Jinan that Wu Huawen, who was swinging from side to side, received a threatening letter of death with a grenade tied to him, and he scolded Lin Shiying in anger, and Lin Shiying knew that he already knew his identity and Zhao Huazhen's identity.
Zhao Huazhen was ordered by the military commander to prevent and block Wu Huawen from defecting to the Communist Party; Lin Shiying performed the opposite task.
Compared with appearance, status in the family, wit and domineering, and ability, Zhao Huazhen is inferior to Lin Shiying, and the military command in this family is left behind by the underground party members of our party a few streets.
At that time, the task entrusted to Lin Shiying by the party organization was to work with the party's underground workers to grasp Wu's ideological changes in a timely manner, prevent him from wavering, protect Wu's safety, and prevent assassination by spies.
At the critical moment, she moved to understand the reason with affection, and persuaded her husband to abandon the dark and cast the light, and gave herself and her wife and children a way to live. Zhao Huazhen, on the other hand, demanded a battle with the orders of the military commander.
Wu Huawen asked Li Changyan, an underground party member of our party who came to contact him, to directly reflect his ideas to General Chen Yi. Wu Huawen ordered his wife, Lin Shiying, to cover up the actions of Li Changyan and other underground party members.
She also dispatched two large trucks and a small jeep to her command and let them drive out of the city to send out the information in the name of recruiting new soldiers.
Lin Shiying knew that Wu Sulai honored his parents, and if his parents did not return to Jinan early, it would affect his determination and action to revolt, and Lin Shiying asked his eldest brother Lin Shida and third brother Lin Shixun to take a military plane to Xuzhou on September 15 to take Wu's parents from Xuzhou to Jinan by the last flight.
In order to ensure Wu's safety, Lin Shiying tried every means to prevent Wu from attending a military conference convened by Wang Yaowu, and whenever Wang Yaowu came to call Wu, Lin Shiying rushed to answer the phone and tried to deal with it.
In the end, Wu Huawen's balance still tilted towards Lin Shiying.
In August 1948, the People's Liberation Army completed the siege of Jinan. On August 3, Wu Huawen made it clear that he would only consider the uprising after Chiang Kai-shek gave him a batch of weapons and equipment.
Four rebellions, five changes of master, but excusable!
Wu Huawen left Bozhou at the age of 16 and threw himself into Feng Yuxiang's command, beginning his lifelong conquest history, and he regarded Feng as his father, but he was also afraid of it like a tiger. His rebellion also began with Feng Yuxiang.
Feng Yuxiang saw that Wu was young and handsome, and he had some achievements, that is, he guaranteed him to go to Beijing to attend the "Chinese Army University". After graduation, he was promoted by Feng Yuxiang to chief of staff of the 28th Division.
In order to protect Zhang Zizhong, Wu Huawen took the lead in contacting the three brigade commanders to write a letter, and Feng Sawshu was furious and wanted to arrest Wu Huawen. Wu fled on the news and defected to Han Fuyu, who was then chairman of the Shandong provincial government and commander-in-chief of the Kuomintang Third Route Army.
After the July 7 Incident, Han Fuyu was sentenced by the Nationalist government for his inability to resist the War of Resistance, while Wu Huawen was transformed into a major member of the Nationalist government because of his strength to resist the Japanese army and broke away from Han Fuyu.
Wu served as the commander of the division and the commander of the First Division of Shandong Security. At the beginning of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, he led his troops to fight against the Japanese army in Tai'an, Wande, Humen, Liuhe and other places. In 1939, the Japanese army "May Day sweep", he led his troops in Linqu to fight the enemy day after day, severely damaged the Japanese army, and even praised by the Chinese Communists.
The shrinkage of the Nationalist government in the North China Battlefield made it difficult for Wu Huawen to stand alone, and in desperation, through the communication of his second wife Zhao Baozhen and Dai Kasa, he obtained the instruction of "temporarily surrendering to Japan and maintaining strength".
Throw yourself into Japan and oppose communism. Its unit was reorganized into the Third Front Of the "Peace Nation-Building Army", and Wu served as the commander-in-chief of the General Wu, who suppressed the Communists in Lunan, created no man's land, and committed unforgivable crimes against Japanese forces.
With the surrender of Japan, Wu Huawen once again smoothly changed from a "Japanese puppet army" to a "national army", and since he was a military general of the Kuomintang, he began to actively confront the Ccp.
Later, under the advice of Feng Yuxiang and the ideological work of his wife Lin Shiying, he finally chose to surrender to the embrace of the CCP.
For the final "righteous act," Chairman Mao even sent a telegram to Wu Huawen:
"Your commanders and others led the uprising, issued a telegram, and were determined to join the cause of the people's liberation, and were extremely pleased ... As for the officers and men of any Kuomintang army, it is not necessary to ask how they have behaved in the past, as long as they can realize themselves at a critical juncture in the people's liberation war... It is still hoped that the whole army will unite, strive for progress, improve the relations between officers and soldiers, between the military and the people, and strive for the victory of the revolutionary war in the whole country. ”
This common saying is that a rebellion is a rebellion, and that if you say that you surrender to the enemy, you will surrender to the enemy, and you will not be ambiguous at all, and you will never drag mud and water. Whether it is as a warlord, a national army, a traitor, a national army, and finally a people's liberation army, his brother has done a good job, and there is always a brilliant time.
The so-called "meritorious thief" is by no means inferior!
Wu Huawen was with his political commissar
The "Heroic Master" Who Won the "Presidential Palace" in Nanjing
"Zhongshan is windy and rainy, and a million heroes have crossed the river." After sweeping through the enemy on the outskirts of Nanjing (Miura), his "heroic division" was the first to occupy Nanjing, and the red flag was historically planted in the "Presidential Palace".
After the Wu Huawen uprising, Chairman Mao Zedong personally sent a telegram, and the headquarters of the Chinese People's Liberation Army announced that Wu Hua's Ministry of Culture and Culture would be reorganized into the 35th Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and Wu Huawen would be the commander.
Still known as the Thirty-fifth Army, it has 3 divisions under its jurisdiction and belongs to the 7th Corps of the Third Field Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army.
Previously, every time Wu Huawen rebelled was because of the strength in his hands, he could only be given heavy responsibilities and food and equipment, but this time, it was the overall transformation of Wu Huawen's army by the People's Liberation Army.
Wu Huawen told his wife: Now that I follow the Communist Party, I can no longer learn to steal people like before.
On April 21, 1949, the Chinese People's Liberation Army launched the Campaign to Cross the River. Wu Huawen and his 35th Army took part in the campaign, capturing Miura on the north bank of the Yangtze River and being the first to occupy the Presidential Palace in Nanjing.
He then captured Nanjing, the capital of the Kuomintang regime, planted a red flag on the presidential palace, and liberated Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, on May 3, and Wu Huawen was appointed commander of the Hangzhou Garrison.
The Battle of the Crossing River eventually drove Chiang Kai-shek's regime out of the mainland, and Wu Huawen's name was also labeled "the gravedigger of Chiang Kai-shek's regime".
Since then, he has taken three wives and many children to live in the "paradise on earth" hangzhou's West Lake.
The last choice made him finally feel the peace of life in his fifties. No more wars and choices.
Looking at Wu Huawen's doctors, warlords, traitors, The Kuomintang, and the Communist Party, they did everything, but they came and went freely!
The historical evaluation of this person is mixed, and unlike his old boss Feng Yuxiang, Feng Yuxiang is a small section with a loss, and a large section is not damaged.
And he is more like an opportunist, although every rebellion is excusable. But there is damage in both small and large sections.
This made me suddenly think of Liu Bei in "Three Kingdoms", there is no difference between wu huawen and Wu Huawen, but one is a hypocrite and the other is a real villain.
The good thing about being a real villain is that they have done something wrong, I admit! Wu Huawen never defended his life.
Done is done. The speculator is like a gambler, and the last one, he wins!